[SanchoP]

"Now I'm 80. I've got six children, 13 grandchildren, and I have four great grandchildren. Really cool people. People I love more than life. I am perfectly willing to accept the higher risk of mortality, of dying, if I can feel better about their economic futures going forward. I do not want to sacrifice their opportunities going forward, just to have me live another week.

This cannot be said enough.

[TheConservativeBanker]

I had a similar conversation with my youngest son (father of my three grandchildren) about 3 weeks ago. Essentially, I told him that if the price of a few extra years of life for me were poverty and enslavement of his family and all of my posterity, the price would be far too high (I am 70 and still working). Any grandparent who feels differently is a pretty horrible grandparent.

[Obadiah]

Look, we can all be a whole lot safer if we just lock ourselves in a closet, right? But at some point people are going to have to venture out and take some risks. The “cure” is becoming far worse than the disease.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

This 82 yr old with a heart condition agrees with Laffer. We can take care of ourselves. We’re retired and don’t have to go anywhere. I’ve learned how to order groceries over the internet and then I drive up to the store and they put the groceries in the back of my car. I can do this as long as necessary.

A grocery store is the last place I want to go.

[rrrod]

Agree 100%

[Chgogal]

Agreed! Bump to the top!

[FreedomNotSafety]

I love Laffer and especially the Laffer curve. It sure takes one back to the Reagan glory days.

BUT. This issue is liberty. Certainly free people are usually prosperous people but if the bottom line is economic then it becomes the Prog promises versus the eGOP promises.